You could find yourself dining on wild garlic with Welsh rarebit (toasted bread with a hot cheese sauce) or wild leaves with spring lamb.

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People who had a system installed in winter often found that it stopped working in spring, as trees sprouted leaves that blocked the terminal's view of the base-station.

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Visitors enter the park via a broad, pebbled avenue lined with twin rows of gingko trees, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful sights in the capital, especially in the autumn when golden leaves cover the path and in spring when the trees turn a fresh green.

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And lungworts (Pulmonaria), one of the first shade-loving perennials to return each spring, have white polka dots covering their spiky green leaves.

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He leaves ungrasped, too, the many nettles that spring from legalisation, ranging from who might produce the drugs to whether consumption could be restrained.

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Doubtless his main theme will be that the Arab Spring is diametrically opposed to Bin Laden's ideology, and leaves al-Qaeda looking flat footed and out dated.

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Summer is peak tourist season, but planning a wine tour in the spring and autumn means avoiding the crowds and observing either the first leaves and shoots or witnessing the harvest, with grapes hanging ripe and heavy on the vine.

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The latest paints, with so-called fractured pigments, allow the plant leaves to breathe normally and also keep them warmer, thereby helping the turf green up faster in the spring.

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